Garment-fastener tape



Oct. 29, 1929. RQSEMAN 1,733,558

GARMENT FASTENER TAPE Filed June 1927 I INVENTOR. Leoiiosemww,

. BY 7 AY TORNEY Patented Oct. 29, 1929 I rno'nosniyrnmor NEWARK, \NEWJERSEY I GARMENT-resistant TAPE Application filed June 11,

This invention relates to improvements in fastener tape provided with longitudinally spaced hooks or eyes, which tape is adapted to be sewn to garments to furnish desired openings of the latter with fastening means.

In the production of fastener tape, of the kind to which the instant invention relates, it is desirable to conceal the major portion of the metallic fasteners so that only the operative portions thereof are exposed upon the face of the tape, while at the same time providing means in the form of stitching whereby the fasteners are strongly secured or anchored in connection with the tape material.

5 It is the object of this invention therefore, to provide a novel arrangement and relation of metallic fasteners in connection with the tape material, whereby the operative portions of the former project through openings or perforations provided in the latter so as to be ex posed on the tape face, and at the same time to provide a novel form of attaching stitching which can be machine produced as a continuous run of stitches including especially arranged formations which not only anchor the fasteners to the tape body but which at the same time reenforce the ends of the tape openings or perforations, through which the operative portions of the fasteners project, so that said tape openings or perforations are prevented from ripping or tearing under the stresses to which the fastener tape is submitted in use. In addition to the structural advantages thus provided by the instant invention, a fastener tape construction is furnished which can be cheaply and quickly produced on a quantity production basis by automatic machine sewing.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which a Figure 1 is aface view of a portion of fastener tape illustrating one embodiment of the instant invention, and Figure 2 is a trans verse section through the same, taken on line 22 in Figure 1. v

Figure 3 is a face view of a portion of fee- 1927. Serial No. 198,053.

tener tape illustrating a modified form of the running or continuous stitching by which the fastener crevices are secured'tothe tape body I and by which the perforations of the latter.

are reenforced; andFigure 413a transverse f openings or slots2, spaced apart tofcorrespond to the desired spacing of fastener devices on the tape body. The perforations, openings or slots 2 may be cut or punched by any suitable means. 1 i

The reference character3 indicates the base or body portion andl the bill portion of a metallic hook-fastener of familiar type, and usually made'of metallic wire. In, relating the hook-fastener to the tape bodyl, the base or body portion '3 of the former is disposed 1 against the under side of the latter, with the bill portion 4 extending through a perforation or slot 2 to project from and overlie the outer face of the tape body. W'henithe hookfasteners are thus disposed, the rearward .1011",

gitudinal marginal portion of the tapebody is folded under and beneaththe tape bodyto underlie and coverthe base or body portion 3' of the hook-fasteners, thus providing a cov eringfold'5. The opposite or forward longi- 8 tudinal marginal portion of the tapebody isf also folded under and beneath'the tape body, 1 o

as at 6, to provide :a smoothfinished outer marginaledge'l'.

With the fastener devices and tape body, thus prepared and assembled together, the tape body is run through suitablesewing machine mechanism to produce a novel arrangement of fastening stitching for securing the parts iii-assembled relation, and to attain the desired reen forcing of the ends of the perforations or slots 2throughfwhich the hook bills project. In the form shown in Figures 1 and 2 the novel stitching comprises 7 a l ngitudinal line of running stitches 8 sewn through the tape body 1 and underlying covering fold 5, and so disposed as to traverse the base portions 3 of the hook fasteners. Said line of running stitches 8 is interrupted, adjacent to each side of the bill portions of the hook fasteners, bv the formation of a group of cross stitches 9 which extend outwardly from the line of running stitches 8 and across the forward shoulders 3 of the base portions 3 of the hook-fasteners to pass through the tape body adjacent to the ends of the pe i forations or slots 2 of the latter, so that such cross stitches bound the respective ends of said perforations or slots 2 and thereby serve not only to aid in strongly securing the hook fasteners against displacement from opera tive assembled relation to the tape body, but also to reenfor'ce the material of the tape body at the ends of said perforations or slots 2 whereby tearing or ripping thereof under the strains and stresses of use is prevented. The groups of cross stitches 9 being disposed to bound the sides of the shank of the bill portions of the fasteners also prevent side slip or canting of the latter, as well as other tendencies to displacement; The cross stitches 9 are continuous with the running stitches 8, and are preferably automatically or machine produced in a continuous sewing operation by especially designed sewing machines. I Referring to Figures?) and 4, the tape body and parts, as well as the hook-fasteners are the same as already above described in connection with Figures 1 and 2, but the stitching shown in said Figures 3 and 4 is-m'odified to include groups of rearwardly extending cross stitches 10 in addition to the groups of forwardly extending cross stitches 9. Said *bro'ss stitches lO are arranged to traverse the rearward shoulders 3 of the base portions 3, and thus additionally serve to mor'e'firmly anchor the hook fasteners in operative Secured relation to the tape body. Said cross stitches 10 may be off-set from the forwardly extending cross stitches 9, as shown, or they may be aligned therewith and as extensions thereof within the scope and intent of this invention. 3 While I have illustrated and described this invention specifically in connection with hook fasteners, it will be obvious that it is within the spirit and scope thereof that eye-' fasteners may be substituted for the shown hook fasteners, the arrangement of the novel stitching and other features of the construction remaining the same.

Having thus described this invention, I claim A fastener tape structure comprising a tape body having perforations, fastener device's underlyingsaid tape body with their opera; tive' portions extending thr ugh said perq forations thereof and over the faeof s'aid tape body, and continuous stitching through said tape body extending longitudinally of the latter to traverse the base portions of said fastener devices, said stitching including groups of cross stitches extending forwardly at each side of said operative portions of the iso 

